Biography:

Librarian; novelist. Born– Demopolis, September 2, 1911.  Parents– Edwin Bolton and Fenton Brasfield Mason. Education– Agnes Scott College, two years; B.A., University of Alabama; M.A., University of Chicago; M.A., Library Science, Peabody College. Employed as a teacher, Gadsden High School; and in U.S.government school, Frankfort, Germany; assistant director, Gadsden Public Library; cataloger, University of Alabama; Head of Catalog Department,  Birmingham Public Library, 1931; map curator, Rucker Agee Cartographical Collection, Birmingham Public Library.  Published several detective novels in the 1940’s. Member– Etowah County Historical Society. Died August 15, 1993.

Source:

Files at Alabama Public Library Service; Encyclopedia of Alabama

Publication(s):

The Crimson Feather. Garden City, N.Y.; Doubleday, 1945.

Glovers of Marengo County, Ala. Linden, Ala.? 1960?

The House that Hate Built. Garden City, N.Y.; Doubleday, 1944.

A List of Nineteenth Century Maps of the State of Alabama. Birmingham, Ala.; Birmingham Public Library, 1973.

Murder Rents a Room. Garden City, N.Y.; Doubleday, 1943.

The Whip. New York; W. Morrow, 1948.

Compiler:

Confederate Imprints in the University of Alabama Library. University, Ala. s.n., 1961.